Homo Zapiens

Author : Viktor Pelevin
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Advertising
ISBN : UCSC:32106016861152

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Homo Zapiens by Viktor Pelevin Pdf

The collapse of the Soviet Union has opened up a huge consumer market, but how do you sell things to a generation that grew up with just one type of cola? When Tatarsky, a frustrated poet, takes a job as an advertising copywriter, he finds he has a talent for putting distinctively Russian twists on Western-style ads. But his success leads him into a surreal world of spin doctors, gangsters, drug trips, and the spirit of Che Guevera, who, by way of a Ouija board, communicates theories of consumer theology. A bestseller in Russia, "Homo Zapiens" displays the biting absurdist satire that has gained Victor Pelevin superstar status among today's Russian youth, disapproval from the conservative Moscow literary world, and critical acclaim worldwide.

Author : Andrew Bromfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 132274436X

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Homo Zapiens by Andrew Bromfield Pdf

Author : Meghan Vicks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501307232

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Narratives of Nothing in 20th-Century Literature by Meghan Vicks Pdf

The concept of nothing was an enduring concern of the 20th century. As Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre each positioned nothing as inseparable from the human condition and essential to the creation or operation of human existence, as Jacques Derrida demonstrated how all structures are built upon a nothing within the structure, and as mathematicians argued that zero – the number that is also not a number – allows for the creation of our modern mathematical system, Narratives of Nothing in 20th-Century Literature suggests that nothing itself enables the act of narration. Focusing on the literary works of Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, and Victor Pelevin, Meghan Vicks traces how and why these writers give narrative form to nothing, demonstrating that nothing is essential to the creation of narrative – that is, how our perceptions are conditioned, how we make meaning (or madness) out of the stuff of our existence, how we craft our knowable selves, and how we exist in language.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004681385

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Analysing Darkness and Light: Dystopias and Beyond by Anonim Pdf

The book situates itself in the fields of philosophy, political theory, aesthetics and theories of art, linking its discussions of fictional dystopias to debates on ongoing crises. It asks: Are dystopias a useful tool for imagining ways out of sombre situations or do they prevent us from engaging in transformative action? The book consists of a thorough introduction and three major sections: 1. Dystopias of Meaninglessness, 2. Techno-Euphoria vs. Terror of Technology, and 3. Dystopias Come True? The individual chapters discuss, among other things, liberalism and conservatism, “luxury communism”, pandemics, technology-induced anxiety, empty speech, ethics, film, literature, architecture and music.

Author : Andrey Makarychev,Andre Mommen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135006945

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Russia's Changing Economic and Political Regimes by Andrey Makarychev,Andre Mommen Pdf

The book reveals the interconnection between social, cultural and political protest movements and social and economic changes in a post-communist country like Russia still dominated by bureaucratic rulers and "oligarchs" controlling all basic industries and mining activities. Those interests are also dominating Russia’s foreign policy and explain why Russia did not succeed in becoming an integral part of Europe. The latter is, at least, wished by many Russian citizens.

Author : Sofya Khagi
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644697788

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Companion to Victor Pelevin by Sofya Khagi Pdf

Companion to Victor Pelevin, a collaborative undertaking by a group of emerging Russianist scholars, focuses on the work of one of the most important and hotly debated post-Soviet writers. It provides a valuable resource to scholars, teachers, and students, including how best to teach Pelevin to university-level students, and which critical debates invite further investigation. The contributors offer new readings of Pelevin texts that cover a broad time span and pay due attention to the philosophical and aesthetic complexities of Pelevin’s oeuvre in its development from the early post-Soviet years to the second decade of the present millennium. Examining all of Pelevin’s major works and all Peleviniana currently available in English, the Companion aims to prompt further inquiry into this author’s intellectually stimulating and socially prescient work.

Author : Viktor Pelevin
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0142001813

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Homo Zapiens by Viktor Pelevin Pdf

A richly textured novel of vanity, greed, and advertising revisits the collapse of the Soviet Union, which is now primed and ready for exploitation, as Tartarsky, a copywriter who has a knack for concocting home-grown alternatives to Western ads, is plunged into a realm of gangsters, spin doctors, and drug dealers where reality slowly begins to dissolve. Reprint.

Author : Sofya Khagi
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810143043

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Pelevin and Unfreedom by Sofya Khagi Pdf

Sofya Khagi’s Pelevin and Unfreedom: Poetics, Politics, Metaphysics is the first book-length English-language study of Victor Pelevin, one of the most significant and popular Russian authors of the post-Soviet era. The text explores Pelevin’s sustained Dostoevskian reflections on the philosophical question of freedom and his complex oeuvre and worldview, shaped by the idea that contemporary social conditions pervert that very notion. Khagi shows that Pelevin uses provocative and imaginative prose to model different systems of unfreedom, vividly illustrating how the present world deploys hyper-commodification and technological manipulation to promote human degradation and social deadlock. Rather than rehearse Cold War–era platitudes about totalitarianism, Pelevin holds up a mirror to show how social control (now covert, yet far more efficient) masquerades as freedom and how eagerly we accept, even welcome, control under the techno-consumer system. He reflects on how commonplace discursive markers of freedom (like the free market) are in fact misleading and disempowering. Under this comfortably self-occluding bondage, the subject loses all power of self-determination, free will, and ethical judgment. In his work, Pelevin highlights the unprecedented subversion of human society by the techno-consumer machine. Yet, Khagi argues, however circumscribed and ironically qualified, he holds onto the emancipatory potential of ethics and even an emancipatory humanism.

Author : Bo Petersson,Karina Vamling
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781443854450

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The Sochi Predicament by Bo Petersson,Karina Vamling Pdf

For a variety of political, climatic, ecological, security-related and other reasons, the Russian summer resort of Sochi by the Black Sea would seem a most unlikely candidate for the Olympic Winter Games. Despite this, the Games will be held there in February 2014, and the Russian leaders regard the Games as a highly prestigious project underlining Russia’s return to a status of great power in the contemporary world. This book conducts a thorough inventory of the contexts, characteristics and challenges facing the Sochi Games. It deals with the problems from Russian, Georgian, Abkhazian and Circassian perspectives and makes in-depth analyses of profound challenges related to matters such as identity, security, and ethnic relations. The book brings together an international group of eminent scholars representing different disciplinary perspectives, including political science, sports science, ethics, ethnology, and Caucasian studies.

Author : Natasa Kovacevic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134044146

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Narrating Post/Communism by Natasa Kovacevic Pdf

This book examines communist and post-communist literary and visual narratives, including the writings of prominent anti-communist dissidents and exiles such as Vladimir Nabokov, Czeslaw Milosz and Milan Kundera, exploring important themes including how Eastern European regimes and cultures have been portrayed as totalitarian, barbarian and "Orientalist" – in contrast to the civilized "West" – disappointment in the changes brought on by post-communist transition, and nostalgia for communism.

Author : Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback,Susanna Lindberg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786602633

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The End of the World by Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback,Susanna Lindberg Pdf

This volume attempts to show that it is vital that we address the motif of the 'end' in contemporary world – but that this cannot be done without thinking it anew.

Author : Brian James Baer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780525504597

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Short Stories in Russian by Brian James Baer Pdf

A dual-language edition of Russian stories—many appearing in English for the first time This new volume of ten short stories offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature without constantly having to refer to a dictionary. The stories—many of which appear here in English for the first time—are by well-established writers like Vladimir Sorokin, Ludmila Ulitskaya, Sergey Lukyanenko, and Ludmilla Petrushevskaya as well as emerging voices like Alexander Ilichevsky, Evgeny Grishkovets, and Yulya Kisina. Drawn from the last two decades of the Soviet Union and the two decades following its collapse, they chart a period of dramatic social change, often using metaphors of the body, and represent a range of literary styles that highlight the dynamism of contemporary Russian fiction. Complete with notes, the stories make excellent reading in either language. Note: For each short story in this eBook edition, the full English translation is followed by its original Russian text.

Author : Jos de Mul
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443821933

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Cyberspace Odyssey by Jos de Mul Pdf

The emergence of the hominids, more than five million years ago, marked the start of the human odyssey through space and time. This book deals with the last stage of this fascinating journey: the exploration of cyberspace and cybertime. Through the rapid global implementation of information and communication technologies, a new realm for human experience and imagination has been disclosed. Reversely, these postgeographical and posthistorical technologies have started to colonize our bodies and minds. Taking Homer’s Odyssey and Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey as his starting point, the author investigates the ‘informatization of the worldview’, focusing on its implications for our culture–arts, religion, and science–and, ultimately, our form of life. Moving across a wide range of disciplines, varying from philosophical anthropology and palaeontology to information theory, and from astrophysics to literary, film and new media studies, the author discusses our ‘cyberspace odyssey’ from a reflective position beyond euphoria and nostalgia. His analysis is as profound as nuanced and deals with issues that will be high on the agenda for many decades to come. In 2003 a Dutch Edition of Cyberspace Odyssey received the Socrates Prize for the best philosophy book published in Dutch.

Author : C. Henseler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230339385

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Spanish Fiction in the Digital Age by C. Henseler Pdf

This book applies theoretical models that reflect the mediated, hybrid, and nomadic global scenes within which GenX artists and writers live, think, and work. Henseler touches upon critical insights in comparative media studies, cultural studies, and social theory, and uses sidebars to travel along multiple voices, facts, figures, and faces.

Author : Marijeta Bozovic
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674290624

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Avant-Garde Post- by Marijeta Bozovic Pdf

Avant-Garde Post- follows seven Russophone poets as they reinvigorate leftist art in the wake of state socialism. Rejecting both the Putin regime--with its selective mobilizations of Soviet nostalgia--and Western discourses of liberal superiority, this circle is reviving class-based critique through experimental forms and global collaborations.